"The UK's response to this action to date has been through mandating open standards and specifications in its e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF)..."
I think this is the core of it. The (UK) Government has been stung several times over the last few years by proprietry systems. ICL and Microsoft come to mind most readily.
Of course, there's a lot of people who work on Government systems who'll be disappointed by the announcement. It looks like the days and advantages of being the only XL57Z-6000 (or whatever) Series programmer in the UK will be coming to an end.
1. The research only says that people are less like to respond if the to field contains multiple names. A lot of spam is targetted at only one person.
2. The research only says that people are less like to respond if the to field contains multiple names. It does not say that they are less likely to read it.
3. If you're targetting 30 people a go, and only 3 respond, then your'e still getting a better response than if one person was targetted and that person responded.
The irony with spam I think is that the less Spam in the system, the more effective it is. So - if people manage to block 90% of spam, then the 10% that gets through works better, and the spammers can afford to try a little harder to get that spam through.
1 take deep "don't mod me down" breath. 2 from dos prompt do a brief directory listing of your mp3's to a file. dir *.* > c:\s.bat/b
3. open up the file in word or textpad. 4. create a macro (using record) to....
Cut the text from the line.. [Shift-End] [Ctrl-X] paste the text [Ctrl-V] lowercase the line [Shift-End] [Ctrl-Shift-L] go to the beginning of the line [home] type "rename " Paste the cut text [Ctrl-V] type " " go to the beginning of the next line [Home] [Down]
5. Save the Macro then Run the macro through for every line. 6. edit the rename-to file for the items which aren't right 7. Save the file and run it by double clicking it.
Not quite as neat as the unix solution, but it should get the job done.
With regard to completely untagged MP3s. The technologies sort of here
(www.shazam.com)
for identifying music, but the delivery mechanism's all wrong for you, and the price isn't good either. I can see this sort of thing branching out in a short while though. You send a fifteen second MP3 snippet, and an email comes back to you with the song details.
How I'd do it. If you can get the CDDB into a MYSQL database, it'd be easy enough to strip out the id tag info and do some sort of an index match.
I've said this already, but I'll say it again, because it's more pertinent to your post. Fastmail (apologies for the gratuitous advertising thing going on here) works really well for me. $20 a year, and you get the works. No shell access though.
I thought the "How much you save figure" was too much, so I compared it against what I currently pay. I'm a Windows user as well, so an honest comparison seemed interesting.
* Anti-virus: $50
that's about right. Given that with most of the best AV s/w, you have to update yearly anyway.
* Backup: $40
Nope - I pay $84.00 a year with connected TLM
And Yes - some people do do this. And yes - I think it's fantastic.
* 100MB of online storage: $60
* Home page creation and hosting: $60
300MB + hosting costs me £300.00. (thanks to the weird $1 (IT) equals £1 (IT) ratio that seems to exist, I'm converting that straight to $300.00) Either way, I'm paying loads more. But I do get the PHP, MYSql, Virtual Server, multiple domain stuff, so I don't know how comparable it is.
* 15MB of email storage, forwarding and POP/IMAP access: $40+
No No. Fastmail costs $20, and it comes with free AV stuff, more disk space, Anti-spam, and all the usual.
So I pay $454 a year...
Even without the hosting (I really need my PHP & MySQL), I'm still paying $154.
Put that way, $100.00 doesn't seem so bad. Maybe I'll buy that Mac after all.
I'd be interested in knowing their bandwidth caps, and prices for additional storage though.
If you look at all the angel, cross and christ related gravestones, then I'd say the christian church already has a monopoly on this sort of advertising. I'd much rather sell the word of Playstation II, than sell the word of God. I say, bring it on. At least my nearest and dearest get to make some money out of me when I'm dead.
We already have the PVR / Cable facility in the UK with Sky Plus. It is a good idea, but the way it's panned out it's more a way for Murdoch to increase his monopoly / increase tie-in to Sky / take more money into the Murdoch Fold. It's not as good a solution, but I think the best thing to do is to keep your set top & your cable box separate. You'll appreciate it in the long run.
Then how do we explain all the people with less education buying premium computers from Compaq and Dell?
I'm guessing that you have a big list of the people who bought Dells, and there educations.
If you want a computer to draw a comparison with, pick the Sony Vaio. I bet Vaio owners all have the equivalent IQ to the people that buy Macs. And I bet they bought them because the top-end intellectual magazines that advertise Macs also advertise the Sony. This isn't an issue about price, this is an issue about social standing.
It seems that they could keep 90% of the required formatting by only allowing certain tags. That way they won't have to do the old search and replace thing. SlashDot only allows
When I said Sorry Guys, I meant it as - I really, really would like to use Open-Source stuff, but (and I'm not saying it isn't my fault), I've not been able to find anything. I'm not implying other people should be sad, I'm saying that I'm sad that the stuff (apparently) isn't there.
And I have looked at what's available in the open source community. I haven't found anything that does the same job for me as simply as Microsoft Source-Safe. (Again - maybe my fault. I'm not throwing accusations here).
I was just saying that all I want is something simple with a pretty front end, and the only thing simple enough that I've been able to find has been MSS. Nothing more. Nothing Less.
You may be being sarcastic, but I actually agree with this. I don't want much from my source control. Just the ability to book in, book out, and compare version differences. The big problem with open-source source-control is that I know that it'll give me this, but I'm not really in the mood to (a) learn how to do it and (b) do it in some special Linux command line way. Give me a flashy front end with big "book in", "add new file", "show version history" buttons, and I'm really happy.
Of course the command line thing would be nice too, but for me, the basics (that'll be the zero fuss gui) are covered much better by MS source-safe.
If this meant that I could get a good internet connection without the knowledge that a load of kids were stealing my bandwidth, then it'd be a good selling point to me. Let road runner put the breaks on Kazaa, etc. If I wasn't interested in using / paying for p2p traffic, then surely I should be allowed to choose a service provider that provided a service that didn't include it. (And Vice Versa) This isn't a freedom of speech issue; this is an issue about a consumers right to choose the service they want.
Contrast this disgusting RIAA funded practice with the screams of delight that emanate from SlashDot when Activists perform Electronic 'Sit Ins' (i.e. DOS Attacks) at politically un-liberal sites. It's well enough that you pull out the "one law for the rich..." argument, but at least recognise that it's a basic variation on accepted/. practice.
Heck, just get your timetabling person to post the new timetables, student lists, etc onto slashdot, throw in some microsoft banter, then let the/.'s squabble their way to a solution. Zero development, easy to use web interface, and only a few comments directed back at you telling you that.. "If you know how to do it, why the hell are you asking us" and "you can dress it up all you like, but we aren't doing your homework for you". Perfect.
weird definition of sellout there. The only way you're going to be able to brand Moby as sell-out is if he produces music that go against his core values. My guess is that he likes to make his music, he likes people to listen to his music, and he likes to make a wage off his music. Nothing more. Where's the sellout? And the mans allowed to be curious and then talk about exactly how file-sharing affects the different types from the music industry. If this was some renowned weblogger, people would be falling over themselves to tell the world that this was a smart thing to say.
Slashdot Mirror
The Guardian had this to say about the coming weeks news stories. The BBC always trot this one out when there's nothing else much to say.
"The UK's response to this action to date has been through mandating open standards and specifications in its e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) ..."
I wonder what Unisys has to say about that.
I think this is the core of it. The (UK) Government has been stung several times over the last few years by proprietry systems. ICL and Microsoft come to mind most readily.
Of course, there's a lot of people who work on Government systems who'll be disappointed by the announcement. It looks like the days and advantages of being the only XL57Z-6000 (or whatever) Series programmer in the UK will be coming to an end.
Of course, all we need now is to be captured by gangsters and told to decrypt the directions to the hidden gold.
1. The research only says that people are less like to respond if the to field contains multiple names. A lot of spam is targetted at only one person.
2. The research only says that people are less like to respond if the to field contains multiple names. It does not say that they are less likely to read it.
3. If you're targetting 30 people a go, and only 3 respond, then your'e still getting a better response than if one person was targetted and that person responded.
The irony with spam I think is that the less Spam in the system, the more effective it is. So - if people manage to block 90% of spam, then the 10% that gets through works better, and the spammers can afford to try a little harder to get that spam through.
Like a sort of a feedback loop sort of thing.
1 take deep "don't mod me down" breath. /b
....
2 from dos prompt do a brief directory listing of your mp3's to a file.
dir *.* > c:\s.bat
3. open up the file in word or textpad.
4. create a macro (using record) to
Cut the text from the line.. [Shift-End] [Ctrl-X]
paste the text [Ctrl-V]
lowercase the line [Shift-End] [Ctrl-Shift-L]
go to the beginning of the line [home]
type "rename "
Paste the cut text [Ctrl-V]
type " "
go to the beginning of the next line [Home] [Down]
5. Save the Macro then Run the macro through for every line.
6. edit the rename-to file for the items which aren't right
7. Save the file and run it by double clicking it.
Not quite as neat as the unix solution, but it should get the job done.
With regard to completely untagged MP3s. The technologies sort of here (www.shazam.com) for identifying music, but the delivery mechanism's all wrong for you, and the price isn't good either. I can see this sort of thing branching out in a short while though. You send a fifteen second MP3 snippet, and an email comes back to you with the song details.
How I'd do it. If you can get the CDDB into a MYSQL database, it'd be easy enough to strip out the id tag info and do some sort of an index match.
The Feedb CD Data can be found here
I've said this already, but I'll say it again, because it's more pertinent to your post. Fastmail (apologies for the gratuitous advertising thing going on here) works really well for me. $20 a year, and you get the works. No shell access though.
And the next time, I'll use the preview function.
I thought the "How much you save figure" was too much, so I compared it against what I currently pay. I'm a Windows user as well, so an honest comparison seemed interesting. * Anti-virus: $50 that's about right. Given that with most of the best AV s/w, you have to update yearly anyway. * Backup: $40 Nope - I pay $84.00 a year with connected TLM And Yes - some people do do this. And yes - I think it's fantastic. * 100MB of online storage: $60 * Home page creation and hosting: $60 300MB + hosting costs me £300.00. (thanks to the weird $1 (IT) equals £1 (IT) ratio that seems to exist, I'm converting that straight to $300.00) Either way, I'm paying loads more. But I do get the PHP, MYSql, Virtual Server, multiple domain stuff, so I don't know how comparable it is. * 15MB of email storage, forwarding and POP/IMAP access: $40+ No No. Fastmail costs $20, and it comes with free AV stuff, more disk space, Anti-spam, and all the usual. So I pay $454 a year... Even without the hosting (I really need my PHP & MySQL), I'm still paying $154. Put that way, $100.00 doesn't seem so bad. Maybe I'll buy that Mac after all. I'd be interested in knowing their bandwidth caps, and prices for additional storage though.
If you look at all the angel, cross and christ related gravestones, then I'd say the christian church already has a monopoly on this sort of advertising. I'd much rather sell the word of Playstation II, than sell the word of God. I say, bring it on. At least my nearest and dearest get to make some money out of me when I'm dead.
We already have the PVR / Cable facility in the UK with Sky Plus. It is a good idea, but the way it's panned out it's more a way for Murdoch to increase his monopoly / increase tie-in to Sky / take more money into the Murdoch Fold. It's not as good a solution, but I think the best thing to do is to keep your set top & your cable box separate. You'll appreciate it in the long run.
Plus - it's a reissue isn't it. Surely you can download it already. Or have I missed the point too.
Then how do we explain all the people with less education buying premium computers from Compaq and Dell? I'm guessing that you have a big list of the people who bought Dells, and there educations.
If you want a computer to draw a comparison with, pick the Sony Vaio. I bet Vaio owners all have the equivalent IQ to the people that buy Macs. And I bet they bought them because the top-end intellectual magazines that advertise Macs also advertise the Sony. This isn't an issue about price, this is an issue about social standing.
Niles Crane would buy a Mac.
heh - thanks. That looks to be exactly what I need. Way to restore my faith in the slashdot humanity subset.
Woah - slashdot wrath.
When I said Sorry Guys, I meant it as - I really, really would like to use Open-Source stuff, but (and I'm not saying it isn't my fault), I've not been able to find anything. I'm not implying other people should be sad, I'm saying that I'm sad that the stuff (apparently) isn't there.
And I have looked at what's available in the open source community. I haven't found anything that does the same job for me as simply as Microsoft Source-Safe. (Again - maybe my fault. I'm not throwing accusations here).
I was just saying that all I want is something simple with a pretty front end, and the only thing simple enough that I've been able to find has been MSS. Nothing more. Nothing Less.
Now if I call 'Uncle', will you stop hitting me.
You may be being sarcastic, but I actually agree with this. I don't want much from my source control. Just the ability to book in, book out, and compare version differences. The big problem with open-source source-control is that I know that it'll give me this, but I'm not really in the mood to (a) learn how to do it and (b) do it in some special Linux command line way. Give me a flashy front end with big "book in", "add new file", "show version history" buttons, and I'm really happy.
Of course the command line thing would be nice too, but for me, the basics (that'll be the zero fuss gui) are covered much better by MS source-safe.
Sorry Guys.
If this meant that I could get a good internet connection without the knowledge that a load of kids were stealing my bandwidth, then it'd be a good selling point to me. Let road runner put the breaks on Kazaa, etc. If I wasn't interested in using / paying for p2p traffic, then surely I should be allowed to choose a service provider that provided a service that didn't include it. (And Vice Versa) This isn't a freedom of speech issue; this is an issue about a consumers right to choose the service they want.
Contrast this disgusting RIAA funded practice with the screams of delight that emanate from SlashDot when Activists perform Electronic 'Sit Ins' (i.e. DOS Attacks) at politically un-liberal sites. It's well enough that you pull out the "one law for the rich..." argument, but at least recognise that it's a basic variation on accepted /. practice.
Heck, just get your timetabling person to post the new timetables, student lists, etc onto slashdot, throw in some microsoft banter, then let the /.'s squabble their way to a solution. Zero development, easy to use web interface, and only a few comments directed back at you telling you that.. "If you know how to do it, why the hell are you asking us" and "you can dress it up all you like, but we aren't doing your homework for you". Perfect.
weird definition of sellout there. The only way you're going to be able to brand Moby as sell-out is if he produces music that go against his core values. My guess is that he likes to make his music, he likes people to listen to his music, and he likes to make a wage off his music. Nothing more. Where's the sellout? And the mans allowed to be curious and then talk about exactly how file-sharing affects the different types from the music industry. If this was some renowned weblogger, people would be falling over themselves to tell the world that this was a smart thing to say.